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Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky (born Gennady Borisovich Tartakovsky, Russian: Геннадий Борисович Тартаковский) is an animator known for creating the series, Dexter's Laboratory, and Samurai Jack. He is also a co creator for Sym-Bionic Titan.

Born in Moscow, Russia, he came to the U.S. as a child and gained an interest in animation due to his exposure to many American cartoons and comics. He would attend CalArts to pursue a career in the field and would take small jobs on the shows Tiny Toon Adventures and Batman: The Animated Series after graduating.

His first job at Cartoon Network was on 2 Stupid Dogs and eventually became one of the pioneers of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons (others include Craig McCracken, John R. Dilworth, Danny Antonucci, Van Partible, etc). Genndy was also a major staff member on the first three seasons of The Powerpuff Girls, and created the Star Wars: Clone Wars mini series.

Genndy also is involved in the field of cinema. He served as the animation director on The Powerpuff Girls Movie and is the director of the Hotel Transylvania films.

Ever since 2002, Genndy had the intention of making a film adaptation of Samurai Jack, however the under-performance of The Powerpuff Girls Movie led to the film being scrapped (among other ideas for theatrical Cartoon Network films). After the series concluded in 2004 he continued to pursue this goal in order to give the series a proper finale (even gaining support from such figures as J.J. Abrams) only to be stunted at each turn. Eventually he formed a deal with Mike Lazzo of Adult Swim to produce a final fifth season which aired in 2017.

Episode(s) Written and Directed

Writer and Storyboard Artist: Season 1:

Episode I: The Beginning (with Paul Rudish)
Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack (with Paul Rudish)
Episode III: The First Fight (with Paul Rudish)
Episode VI: Jack and the Warrior Woman (with Mike Manley)

Season 2:

Episode XXII: Jack and the Hunters

Season 3:

Season 4:

Episode L: Tale of X9 (with Bryan Andrews)
Episode LI: Young Jack in Africa (with Jim Smith and Erik Wiese)
Episode LII: Jack and the Baby (with Paul Rudish)

Season 5:

All episodes

Director:

All episodes

References

Crew
Robert Alvarez \| Bryan Andrews \| Mark Andrews \| Darrick Bachman \| Charlie Bean \| David Krentz \| Brian Larsen \| Mike Manley \| Chris Mitchell \| Randy Myers \| Chris Reccardi \| Rob Renzetti \| Paul Rudish \| Chris Savino \| Don Shank \| Jim Smith \| Aaron Springer \| Genndy Tartakovsky \| Erik Wiese \| Carey Yost

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-'''Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky''' (born '''Gennady Borisovich Tartakovsky''', Russian: '''Геннадий Борисович Тартаковский''') is a cartoonist made famous for his first project, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory Dexter's Laboratory]'', and is the creator of ''[[Samurai Jack (series)|Samurai Jack]]'' and ''Sym-Bionic Titan''. Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he came to the U.S. as a child and when he was a young man, he studied at CalArts to learn animation.
+'''Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky''' (born '''Gennady Borisovich Tartakovsky''', Russian: '''Геннадий Борисович Тартаковский''') is an animator known for creating the series, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory Dexter's Laboratory]'',  and ''[[Samurai Jack (series)|Samurai Jack]]. ''He is also a co creator for ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym-Bionic_Titan Sym-Bionic Titan.]''
+Born in Moscow, Russia, he came to the U.S. as a child and gained an interest in animation due to his exposure to many American cartoons and comics. He would attend [https://calarts.edu/about/institute/about CalArts] to pursue a career in the field and would take small jobs on the shows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series Batman: The Animated Series] after graduating.
-Before working at [[Cartoon Network]], his first job in animation was on an episode of Tiny Toons Adventures (the show that would later succeed to the Animaniacs). His first job at Cartoon Network was on ''2 Stupid Dogs'' (created by Donovan Cook) and since the has been one of the pioneers of Cartoon Cartoons (others include Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti, John R. Dilworth, Danny Antonucci, Max Atoms, David Feiss, Van Partible, and so on).
+His first job at Cartoon Network was on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Stupid_Dogs 2 Stupid Dogs]''  and eventually became one of the pioneers of Cartoon Network's [http://cartoonnetwork.wikia.com/wiki/Cartoon_Cartoons Cartoon Cartoons] (others include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_McCracken Craig McCracken],  [http://www.stretchfilms.com/ John R. Dilworth,] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Antonucci Danny Antonucci,] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanpartible Van Partible,] etc). Genndy was also a major staff member on the first three seasons of ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powerpuff_Girls The Powerpuff Girls]'', and created the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Clone_Wars_(2003_TV_series) Star Wars: Clone Wars] ''mini series.
-Genndy also helped out on ''The Powerpuff Girls'', ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'', ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' (not related to the 3D animated series), and ''Duck Dodgers''. The most recent show he made for Cartoon Network is ''Sym-Bionic Titan'', which he proclaims to be "the most challenging project I have ever done." He wanted to do a second season, but CN cancelled the show because it "didn't have enough toys connected to it."
-Other than shows, Genndy is also involved in movies. He served as an animation director in ''The Powerpuff Girls Movie'' and ''How to Eat Fried Worms''. In 2012, he made his theatrical debut as director with ''Hotel Transylvania'' and its two sequels.
+Genndy also is involved in the field of cinema. He served as the animation director on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powerpuff_Girls_Movie The Powerpuff Girls Movie]'' and is the director of the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Transylvania_(franchise) Hotel Transylvania]'' films.
+Ever since 2002, Genndy had the intention of making a film adaptation of Samurai Jack, however the under-performance of The Powerpuff Girls Movie led to the film being scrapped (among other ideas for theatrical Cartoon Network films). After the series concluded in 2004 he continued to pursue this goal in order to give the series a proper finale (even gaining support from such figures as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams J.J. Abrams]) only to be stunted at each turn. Eventually he formed a deal with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lazzo Mike Lazzo] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim Adult Swim] to produce a final fifth season which aired in 2017.
-After the programming of ''Samurai Jack'' that ran on Cartoon Network ended from 2001 till 2004, he was planning on making a ''Samurai Jack'' film, however because of the lackluster performance of ''The Powerpuff Girls Movie'', the idea of a ''Samurai Jack'' film has been scrapped.
-He attended Comic Con 2016 where he pitched the show.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilyhi7rW9JA</ref>
-In 2017, he returned for the final and fifth season of ''Samurai Jack'' where he continued as director, writer, storyboard artist, producer, and executive producer.
 ==Episode(s) Written and Directed==
-Writer and Storyboard:
+Writer and Storyboard Artist:
 Season 1:
-* [[Episode I: The Beginning]] (with [[Paul Rudish]]
+* [[Episode I: The Beginning]] (with [[Paul Rudish]])
 * [[Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack]] (with Paul Rudish)
-* [[Episode III: The First Fight]] (woth Paul Rudish)
+* [[Episode III: The First Fight]] (with Paul Rudish)
 * [[Episode VI: Jack and the Warrior Woman]] (with [[Mike Manley]])
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 Season 3:
 * [[Episode XXXII: Jack and the Travelling Creatures]] (with [[Erik Wiese]])
-* [[Episode XXXVIII: The Birth of Evil, Part 2]] (with [[Don Shank]]
+* [[Episode XXXVIII: The Birth of Evil, Part 2]] (with [[Don Shank]])
 Season 4: